Iran: More than 200,000 street arrests in East Azerbaijan and Isfahan provinces

NCRI – In past three months, the State Security Forces (SSF) — mullahs' suppressive police — stopped more than 200,000 people in the streets under the pretext of "importer dressing" in the northwestern Azerbaijan province and Isfahan in central Iran. Brig. Gen. Amir-Abbas Soufivand, chief of security in Isfahan, said, "In compliance with the plan to double the number of chastity patrols for combating improper dressing in the streets of Isfahan, this year, we will deal swiftly with men and women undermining the security… the security patrols have given oral warnings to 2,300 individuals with improper outfits. The police also have taken written pledges from the offenders not to repeat their actions. Since the start of the new Iranian year (beginning on March 20), more than 188,000 individuals have been stop on the streets of Isfahan for oral warnings," reported the state-run news agency Fars on May 28.

"The police have given 14,560 oral warnings and arrested 18 men and 49 women for immoral behavior [so far this year]," said Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Nosrati, a commander of the SSF in an interview with Fars in Azerbaijan on Wednesday.

Unable to deal with the increasing popular uprisings, in particular those of women and youths, the mullahs' medieval regime has implemented the so-called "boosting public security" since April of 2007.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 31, 2008